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The history of Sir John Oldcastle, the good Lord Cobham

by: Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, attributed name; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633, attributed name; Wilson, Robert, -1600, attributed name; Hathway, Richard, active 1598-1602, attributed name; Tonson, Jacob, -1735, bookseller

Publication date: 1734

Topics: Cobham, John Oldcastle, Baron, -1417, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

Publisher: London : Printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the proprietors, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster

Collection: bplsceep; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Falsely attributed to Shakespeare; according to Henslowe's diary the authors were Drayton, Munday, Robert Wilson, and Richard Hathway. It was evidently intended as a reply to Shakespeare's Henry IV

Includes an advertisement with a defamatory notice concerning R. Walker's publication of Shakespeare's plays (p. [2])

Title page vignette; Headpiece; initial

Not in Barton collection catalog

ESTC

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in modern brown, pebbled cloth. The perforation stamp of the Library is present on the title page

Notes

no copyright or contents pages.

Addeddate: 2015-02-12 14:17:17.900987

Associated-names: Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631, attributed name; Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633, attributed name; Wilson, Robert, -1600, attributed name; Hathway, Richard, active 1598-1602, attributed name; Tonson, Jacob, -1735, bookseller